Look up to ‘shamba la gorofa’ for the answer to your prayer for farmland

Mary Nanjero, a farmer from Emahondo village in Lurambi, Kakamega County, has built a one-storey concrete structure where she rears dairy cows on ground floor and tomatoes on the first floor. [PHOTOS: BENJAMIN SAKWA/STANDARD]

Potential farmers especially in urban areas, often complain of not having enough space to grow crops and raise animals.

But one farmer is beating this land scarcity problem, through vertical farming or shambala gorofa. The concept, common in Japan where scarcity of land is a big issue, works just the way a flat accommodates residents on ground floor, others first, second and so on.